Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

spilled from my motionless

«Not once...

not even once...

you ever want to make love to me, Elliot» sek KATHERINE My body rocked with the

back the

toward the horizon, sheep

sank behind the ever-present black clouds that never seemed

this realm, light always had to fight to break

"Dont be nervous.

Freyas voice

her wise,

eaten since we

I couldnt.

of bread refused to

even begin to describe what I

had ever genuinely cared for me, and now! wanted her to

together, a thousand thoughts racing through my

and soon, the

---- would be condemned.

where it

mother had been the strange

We never knew her.

spoke

time Katherine regained consciousness, she was already on her way to

the heart to kill her,

place, her daughter, and became the betrothed of the Duke living in

was a rushed, discreet

I had been pregnant out of wedlock, but no one dared to say it openly in front of the

they didnt

me my rightful

even the people of the Duchy whispered behind my back» ook I staggered toward the

fold in the carpet and my own feet, I

So much pain...

inside my

beat slower

smile, staring at the white ceiling, my trembling hand pressing against my

final moments, I

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